Have you ever accidentally deleted a file or folder from your Mac that was very important to you, such as your genealogy data files or your Great American Novel in progress? It’s truly a painful experience. You can avoid that heartache with an inexpensive USB flash drive and a little preparation!
Boot Camp Backup Mac Drive
Start up your Mac in Windows or macOS with Boot Camp. You can set the default operating system to either macOS or Windows. The default operating system is the one you want to use when you turn on or restart your Mac.
This process is a “down and dirty” backup because it doesn’t protect your entire system automatically, the way El Capitan’s built-in Time Machine backup system does. It’s much cheaper than buying an external 1TB USB hard drive, however, and no setup is involved. Computer owners have been using this simple trick ever since the invention of the floppy disk. If you do decide to use Time Machine, you’ll find complete instructions on setting things up in the El Capitan Help system. Remember, you need to buy an external USB or Thunderbolt hard drive to use Time Machine!
- Mar 10, 2015 Paragon Boot Camp Backup is the first backup solution for Windows OS resided on Mac computers under OS X. Apple Boot Camp is a utility that allows you to run Windows OS on a Mac computer. Mac OS X includes built-in backup tools, but they do not support the NTFS-file system and work on the file level only which negatively effects on computer.
- Dec 21, 2019 First, open up Disk Utility in your original Mac with a Boot Camp partition. You will need enough space to backup all the files so double check you have enough disk space in the location you plan to save this backup. The size of your backup will be identical to the partition capacity (not used) –.
If you don’t already have a USB flash drive handy, drop by your local electronics or computer store and buy one. Make sure that the drive you choose is labeled as being compatible with Mac OS X and that it provides at least 32GB of storage capacity.
Then you can use your USB flash drive to back up your important files, as follows:
- Plug the drive into your Mac’s USB port.
The drive should appear on your Desktop and in the Devices section on the left side of any Finder window. - Drag the files you want to back up to the USB drive icon in either location.
You can drag one file at a time or an entire folder’s worth of files.
With a “down and dirty” backup, you’re copying only those files that you absolutely can’t afford to lose. - When you’re done copying files, eject the flash drive by right-clicking the flash drive’s icon and choosing Eject from the pop-up menu.
Boot Camp Backup Mac Pro
Store that drive in a safe location. Repeat the process again as necessary to “freshen” your backup files.
Boot Camp Backup Mac Os
Restoring a file is as easy as plugging in the flash drive and copying the files back to your Mac’s hard drive.
Mac Boot Camp Switch
Have you created an Apple ID/iCloud account? If so, it’s also possible to back up those same essential files to your iCloud Drive instead of a USB flash drive. Instead of dragging the files to an external drive, drag them to the iCloud Drive entry at the left side of the Finder window. There are two caveats with iCloud Drive storage: first, there’s a set limit to the total capacity of your iCloud Drive (typically less than 5GB). Also, if you’re unable to log in to your iCloud account — either on your Mac or another person’s Mac — you can’t access those files.